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With benji at six and milf at seven?
Hunt has put the cue in the rack
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With benji at six and milf at seven?
mitch222
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**** me dead, Benji prances around for two games and now he is the messiah we have been waiting for. He is still bog average in defence and still makes more bad decisions than good decisions as evident on the last play where if we run, we score and win against the Roosters. Benji isn't the answer to the halves situation. Kodi might be, but certainly not a 32 year old Benji Marshall
Taylor1921
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Benji at 7. Played there for dragons with a below average coach and a shit team.
Taylor1921
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Calm down, Marshall is ultra talented, has a better kicking game than Nikorima and milford put together. Can plonk field goals like nothing. Is proven to be good game controller.
Taylor1921
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Benji has showed more promise in 2 games than hunt has showed in the first 7 games of the season. For me I think Bennett should give Nikorima or Benji the 7 this year and build towards next year. Let Hunt go this year, resign Roberts.
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His 2015 stats were pretty good. I wouldn't mind seeing Milf/Benji at least once this season.
mitch222
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Hunts 2015 stats were pretty decent too.
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Yes they were. Except for the last and most important game, Hunt was amazing. Do you think Hunt can/will get back to that form this year?
Taylor1921
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I don't know for me Benji just offers, experience and a kicking game. Plus he has miracle plays just like Nikorima does.
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To be fair to Hunt he's good at miracle plays. It's just the standard stuff he struggles with.
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This is the reason this thread is a joke. Constant revisionist history and bullshit that, somehow, others buy in to.
I can somewhat accept @Porthoz for his arguments. Even though we know it's all tied up in his beloved players (Hunt doesn't utilise Gillett enough; Hunt should have had the foresight to know that the Dragons would offer him a billion dollars and told Wayne to not let Ash Taylor leave), at least the argument has merit. Poor decision-making or bad execution when it comes to last-tackle options. That's really the crux of it. It's a massive flaw, because that's a critical job of the organising half. But it's a narrow scope, and one that he has overcome before.
But "show no interest"? Just cut that shit out right now because it's the exact opposite of what's going on.
Besides Milford's game-sealing run at the end of Round 1, he was pretty shit. Don't go through the live footage or threads if you want, that's your choice, but how about you look at the POTS results, which is an indication of who our members thought performed.
Milford came 4th in Round 1 and 5th in round 2. That's it. Done. You have to go to Round 6 to even get a podium for him (3rd), but we're talking about Rounds 1-5 here, right?
In that same time frame, Hunt got 3rd in Round 4, and FIRST in rounds 2 & 3. By the end of Round 5, Ben Hunt was considered by us, the members, here, as the second best Bronco, just one point behind Matt Gillett, with Milford no where to be seen.
So seriously, some of you guys trying to rewrite history because you saw something new and shiny is just plain horseshit.
Showing little interest, going missing in games? For the first half of the Warriors game, that was Benji Marshall. Storming home with impressive displays when the game is already lost? Benji Marshall again, second half of the same game. Marshall has his place in our team, Bennett knows what he can bring, and is using him exactly how he should. But there's no fucking way we're a better side with Marshall as our halfback instead of Ben Hunt.
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I've never said Hunt showed no interest or goes missing (though he does), or that we'd be a better team with Marshall. I don't vote in the POTS and don't read them, I'm going by comments in the live/post game thread, and my comments against Hunt are pretty much in line with Port's. Hunt was average (Hunt average, that is) until the storm game, when he started to come good with less shit kicks and less rushed, go nowhere plays.
As far as your comments on Benji going missing/'storming home' when the game is over - he's played 2-3 and started in what, two? I expect more from Hunt - but it's the same old story.
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That may well be your take on it, but as far as I can tell, from my opinion as well as the opinion of those commenting and voting,
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That may well be your take on it, but as far as I can tell, from my opinion as well as the opinion of those commenting and voting,
I've already conceded it's simply a matter of opinion. Read the threads, plenty of people weren't happy with what Hunt was dishing up. Not everyone votes, and it is simply not a fact that Hunt was playing 'much better' than Milf. It's an opinion.
My you're an angry little christian, aren't you?
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Haha, silly stuff, but nice bait.
Not even in 2015, which is the only season in his career where he deserved all the accolades, did Hunt show consistently good decision-making. Walters did take advantage of both his and Milford's stronger qualities, by playing an expansive game, which suited their explosive, off the cuff style.
We still struggled to beat teams we needed to grind down, and had an out of this world goal line defense to thank for quite a few wins, where we were put under pressure for long periods, because our halves (especially Hunt, chief playmaker) couldn't take control of those games.
His kicking is, and always has been below average, and his ability to use the players on the right side (not just Gillett, but any of them) is more of the same.
P.S. Of course it pains me to see our best backrower being so poorly utilised, and of course I didn't want Taylor to leave, because he was the ONLY player in our roster with the talent and tools to fulfil a halfback's tasks. Them being favourites of mine, doesn't make it any less true.
tommy
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Well I re-read those 2 threads looking for "all the Hunt posts" and found a grand total of one. Fucking waste of time looking for a needle in a haystack. There were a handful of others saying that the halves as a whole need to improve and poor attack and 5th tackle options etc etc but no specific mention of Hunt. If I were to post all the Milford ones the mods would get pissed that I put up a 5 metre wall of text. At this point I'm assuming you are lying about reading the post match threads.
I had every intention of reading the other post match threads but if Hunt got first place in our POTS polls in round 2 and 3 and Milf was nowhere to be seen then there's really not much point(wish I thought of checking out the POTS polls to begin with, would have saved me a shitload of wasted time), and besides it's a lovely day and I can think of better things to do. Have a gr8 day mate.
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POTS voting is mainly from Facebook... not exactly the greatest endorsement.That may well be your take on it, but as far as I can tell, from my opinion as well as the opinion of those commenting and voting,
Without denying Anthony was poor at the start of the season, he was also demonised because of a few dropped balls and for being slow and "obese".
Neither player was even close to good at the start of the season, but Milford's form was used and abused to excuse Hunt's poor showings.
tommy
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Why is this necessary mate? Is that how you get your boner? By mocking people. Comes across as a superiority complex.
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